The Straits Times
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Aug 18, 2009
Clamp down on illegal traps
IT WAS heart-rending for me to find yet another stray dog suffering as a result of illegal traps laid in the forested areas of Lim Chu Kang.
The sight of stray animals with their limbs torn off is too much for me to bear in silence. I hope the authorities will put a stop to these illegal traps.
It was reported in June that a stray dog had been found with its right hind leg severed by one of these traps ('Dog found with hind paw severed', June 30), and it is disappointing that yet another stray has suffered a similar fate.
Such illegal traps are also a danger to people. Will action be taken only after a human has been injured by them?
Michelle Sng (Miss)
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